Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

The Gazebo's graphical user interface

We can start Gazebo in several ways. You have already seen this in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Robot Operating System. In this chapter, we are using the following command to start an empty world, meaning that there is no robot and no environment:

$ roslaunch gazebo_ros empty_world.launch 

The preceding command will start the Gazebo server and client and load an empty world into Gazebo. Here is the view of the empty world in Gazebo:

Gazebo user interface

The Gazebo user interface can be divided into three sections: Scene, Left Panel, and the Right Panel.